Miss Maps Goes Solo

On 20 December I cheerily bounced up to the check in desk of Quito airport, with a ticket dated 20 January, bugger. Stupid travel agency, stupid me for not noiticing, stupid Taca airline staff for finding it all so amusing. Amazingly they found me a seat on the flight anyway, ha ha! Not so funny now. I had to squirt myself with free poison perfume and buy a bottle of red wine in duty free, just to calm my nerves.

A total journey time of about 4 hours actually ran over 2 days because the stupid flight to Lima gets in late in the evening and the connection to Cusco leaves at 6am, who´s stupid idea was that? Sorry, I´m in a childish strop by this point. The good news is I got to stay in a swanky airport hotel for the night. It was all such a novelty that I stayed up until the early hours watching cookery programmes in Spanish on cable TV.

Cusco took my breath away, partly because it´s so high up there´s no bloody air to breath, but also because it´s the most beautiful town I´ve ever seen in my life. The view from my dorm room balcony is absolutely wonderful.

The hostel is great, the people are friendly, the architecture is gorgeous and the culture is amazing. I´ll definitely be happy to spend Christmas here, probably new years too.

I´m writing this on Christmas Eve and I actually have a stinking cold so I´m feeling a bit sorry for myself, which is probably why this update isn´t particularly enlightning. I´ll right more once I´ve recovered.

I´m kind of ignoring Christmas slightly because it makes me a bit sad being away from home and all. Maybe I´ll call my travel insurers and demand repatriation due to homesickness and having a cold!

But I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas.

Lots of love

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